Film

The best books on film theory for beginners start with how films are made to work on us (shots, editing, sound, narrative) and only then move to the big arguments about realism, spectatorship and ideology. For most readers that means beginning with David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson's Film Art: An Introduction or James Monaco's How…

Writer-director Kieran Bourne and producer Oriane Pick on Arthur & Clara, which had its world premiere at Austin Film Festival: an affordable Annie Hall, authenticity and a first feature.

Slow cinema is a strand of art cinema built on long takes, extended duration, sparse dialogue and minimal plot, often with non-professional actors and long stretches of near silence. The label only took hold in the 2000s and 2010s, but the approach runs back through Tarkovsky, Antonioni and Italian neorealism. It matters because it changes…

To analyse a music video, watch it straight through once, then take it apart in layers: the image with the sound off, the track with the picture off, and finally the two together, noting where the edit, the camera, the performance and the lyrics line up and where they pull apart. Treat the song as…

Physical media matters for film collectors because a disc you own keeps playing whatever happens to licensing deals, while a streamed or digitally "bought" film can be withdrawn by the platform. Discs also carry more picture and sound data than most streams, and they bundle restorations, commentaries and booklets that rarely survive online. UK buyers…

Luca Guadagnino's Artificial, with Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman and Yura Borisov as Ilya Sutskever, reaches the BFI London Film Festival as a Gala on 11 Oct.

A festival is a set of choices, and the most revealing ones are not the headline premieres. They are the rules nobody reads: who picks the films, which prizes exist, and who is allowed to win them. Th

Four European film archives are pooling more than thirty hours of material to reassemble the Don Quixote that Orson Welles began in 1957 and never finished. Not to complete it, but to make it legible.

A cinema studies professor at NYU has spent four decades writing about the things film scholarship had not yet decided were worth writing about: paranoia in 1940s Hollywood, The Sopranos, and a cookery programme from 1963.

An in-depth look at Zac Efron's career evolution, tracking his journey from a Disney teen idol in High School Musical to his career-defining, transformative performance in Sean Durkin's The Iron Claw.

An authoritative dissection of Still Alice (2014), exploring Julianne Moore's clinical preparation, Richard Glatzer's parallel battle with ALS, and the film's cultural legacy.

From his Juilliard origins and iconic roles in Top Gun and The Doors to his battle with throat cancer, exploring the cinematic legacy of Val Kilmer.

From the temporal dread of No Country for Old Men to the meta-cinematic spectacle of Jurassic Park, we explore the hidden symbolism driving modern cinema.

Edward Zwick’s memoir 'Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions' strips away the auteur myth, revealing the chaotic reality of filmmaking, star egos, and box-office gambles.

Discover the behind-the-scenes history of Sydney Pollack's 1975 espionage thriller Three Days of the Condor, from CIA involvement to casting changes.